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Web App Development Made Simple with Streamlit

By : Rosario Moscato
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Web App Development Made Simple with Streamlit

By: Rosario Moscato

Overview of this book

This book is a comprehensive guide to the Streamlit open-source Python library and simplifying the process of creating web applications. Through hands-on guidance and realistic examples, you’ll progress from crafting simple to sophisticated web applications from scratch. This book covers everything from understanding Streamlit's central principles, modules, basic features, and widgets to advanced skills such as dealing with databases, hashes, sessions, and multipages. Starting with fundamental concepts like operation systems virtualization, IDEs, development environments, widgets, scripting, and the anatomy of web apps, the initial chapters set the groundwork. You’ll then apply this knowledge to develop some real web apps, gradually advancing to more complex apps, incorporating features like natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, dashboards with interactive charts, file uploading, and much more. The book concludes by delving into the implementation of advanced skills and deployment techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have transformed into a proficient developer, equipped with advanced skills for handling databases, implementing secure login processes, managing session states, creating multipage applications, and seamlessly deploying them on the cloud.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Streamlit
5
Part 2: Building a Basic Web App for Essential Streamlit Skills
10
Part 3: Developing Advanced Skills with a Covid-19 Detection Tool
15
Part 4: Advanced Techniques for Secure and Customizable Web Applications

Summary

In this chapter, we have completed two of the three voices composing the menu of our COVID-19 Detection Tool web application.

To deal with the Image Enhancement voice, we leveraged the Pillow library, which is a very powerful library that makes it possible to manage some quite powerful functions, such as image contrast and brightness, with very few lines of code.

We also created multiple selections for the user, adopting radio buttons and if clauses. Radio buttons are a very clean and powerful way to propose selections, and there is no way to put any kind of ambiguity in the process.

Using sliders in combination with image visualization is a powerful tool to adjust various parameters, such as contrast and brightness. Sliders provide the user with the ability to precisely and continuously select the desired value for any given parameter.

Another important trick to underline is that every time we modified images (for example, to perform brightness adjustments), we...